"This paper provides an analysis of heteroglossic mass-mediated discourse
for a National Public Radio (NPR) segment. Two Chicago teenagers
covered the story of five-year-old Eric Morse, who was pushed to his death
from a fourteenth-story housing project window. On a micro-discursive
level, each voice represented in this segment is an amalgamated blend of
lived experiences with respect to this tragedy and the events surrounding it,
as well as participation in speech chains of mass-communicative, historical,
and segmental natures. While presented as a documentary examining a
major news event in depth through ""authentic"" correspondents, this segment
is edited and packaged to appeal to a certain demographic. Macrosociological
constructs of race, class, and social position are reflected in
these highly localized discourses as these experiences are edited and
""packaged"" for a specific listening audience.
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